[ZcF-general] Zcash Foundation Monthly Update — June, 2019

[Sonya Mann]

Hello friends! Apologies for this monthly update being late. We wanted to
include a blog post recapping Zcon1, since the event was a big part of the
Zcash Foundation's June. But that will have to wait until next week, since
the photos aren't ready to publish. There will be a Zcon1 section in this
email, but bare-bones compared to the recap.

By the way, if you're interested in Zcash governance and development
funding, you should join the discussion of options for the future:
https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/c/community-collaboration/protocol

And please check out the proposals on ZF Grants:
https://grants.zfnd.org/proposals

Feedback and questions are encouraged! If you like a proposal, consider
pledging some ZEC. The Foundation's hope is that Zcash community members
and ecosystem participants will use ZF Grants to "vote" (so to speak, not
literally) on which grant proposals are the most promising.

And now, the actual monthly update:

6/4
"Zcash Governance: A Step Toward Decentralization"
https://www.zfnd.org/blog/multisig-governance/

The "2-of-2 multisig" metaphor for cryptocurrency governance, and what that
means in practice.

6/8
"Two Bounties Awarded and a ZF Grants Update"
https://www.zfnd.org/blog/grant-platform-update/

> Paper wallet generator for Zcash — 299.49 ZEC contributed by the
Foundation (in USD, a little over $25,000 at the time of writing)

•
https://grants.zfnd.org/proposals/575713843-zcash-sapling-offline-paperwallet-generatator
• https://github.com/adityapk00/zecpaperwallet

> Point-of-sale application for Zcash — 13.35 ZEC contributed by the
Foundation (a little over $1,000 at the time of writing)

• https://grants.zfnd.org/proposals/651588973-zcash-point-of-sale
• https://github.com/ChileBob/Zatsuma
•
https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-point-of-sale-prototype-funded/33019

6/17
"Zebra, the New Consensus-Compatible Zcash Node Client"
https://www.zfnd.org/blog/zebra-zcash-node-client/

> The Zcash Foundation and Parity Technologies are proud to present Zebra,
a consensus-compatible Zcash node client written in Rust, released under
the GPL 3.0 license. The Electric Coin Company's implementation is no
longer the only full-fledged Zcash node software available.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra

Parity's blog post:
https://www.parity.io/parity-releases-zebra-in-collaboration-with-zcash-foundation/

6/18
"Z Wallet iOS Effort Discontinued"
https://www.zfnd.org/blog/zwallet-ios-update/

6/22
Zcon1 begins!

YouTube playlist of talks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob0ajGPMLuE&list=PL40dyJ0UYTLLjPZaKjdhMoCNanb77_Ztj

General chatter about the event: https://twitter.com/hashtag/zcon1

6/22
"Monero Konferenco and Zcon1 Joint Panel"
https://www.zfnd.org/blog/joint-panel-monero-konferenco/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWPELgmS2uA (6/23)

That's all for now! Talk soon.

Sonya Mann
Communications Manager
Zcash Foundation
sonya at zfnd.org
@sonyaellenmann <https://twitter.com/sonyaellenmann/>